Ψ / Psi TV

Generative video channel for web browsers, 2017

Description

In this new media project, I'm researching a new form of aleatory, interference between science, art, and society. Video is generated on-fly by mixing together short videos from search engines, crawling bots and other services, used to index GIF animations from all over the internet.

Different animation layers blended in a random order, changing one another and updated by a new one infinitely. The next meme or theme is mathematically unpredictable, it may be created by someone several seconds ago. But, again by reason of the source, every clip is readable, understandable, contains a message for viewer. It is based on new media context of video content - people use memes to represent their real emotions and feelings, because memes shares clean semantics.

Random blending of animations is the classical cut-up technique used by Burroughs and Gysin, but transfered into memes world. Sooner or later viewer will see the "deep meaning", even not only one. Like in a dream, or nightmare, unconsciously blended images and symbols find a new meaning.

Psi TV - is a dreaming of internet itself, a paradox narrative, attracting by constant recognition and endless, unique plots, behind which there is no "right" meaning. The viewer is free to see what he wants.

Funny at first glance, the toy carries a serious philosophical question, designating a line beyond which any statement that does not have comparable force of impact, accessibility for perception and interpretation, perhaps, is not worth the efforts of the author, the algorithm cope with this convincingly.

Audio is now turned off, for the performance reasons. It was generated live by JavaScript code, creating on-fly and mixing together random PureData presets, placing them in imaginable landscapes with surreal surroundings and reverberations. Here is the link on version with sound.